1 São estas as palavras da aliança que o Senhor ordenou a Moisés fizesse com os filhos de Israel na terra de Moabe, além da aliança que fizera com eles em Horebe. 2 Chamou Moisés a todo o Israel e disse-lhe: Tendes visto tudo quanto o Senhor fez na terra do Egito, perante vós, a Faraó, e a todos os seus servos, e a toda a sua terra; 3 as grandes provas que os vossos olhos viram, os sinais e grandes maravilhas; 4 porém o Senhor não vos deu coração para entender, nem olhos para ver, nem ouvidos para ouvir, até ao dia de hoje. 5 Quarenta anos vos conduzi pelo deserto; não envelheceram sobre vós as vossas vestes, nem se gastou no vosso pé a sandália. 6 Pão não comestes e não bebestes vinho nem bebida forte, para que soubésseis que eu sou o Senhor, vosso Deus. 7 Quando viestes a este lugar, Seom, rei de Hesbom, e Ogue, rei de Basã, nos saíram ao encontro, à peleja, e nós os ferimos; 8 tomamos-lhes a terra e a demos por herança aos rubenitas, e aos gaditas, e à meia tribo dos manassitas. 9 Guardai, pois, as palavras desta aliança e cumpri-as, para que prospereis em tudo quanto fizerdes.

10 Vós estais, hoje, todos perante o Senhor, vosso Deus: os cabeças de vossas tribos, vossos anciãos e os vossos oficiais, todos os homens de Israel, 11 os vossos meninos, as vossas mulheres e o estrangeiro que está no meio do vosso arraial, desde o vosso rachador de lenha até ao vosso tirador de água, 12 para que entres na aliança do Senhor, teu Deus, e no juramento que, hoje, o Senhor, teu Deus, faz contigo; 13 para que, hoje, te estabeleça por seu povo, e ele te seja por Deus, como te tem prometido, como jurou a teus pais, Abraão, Isaque e Jacó. 14 Não é somente convosco que faço esta aliança e este juramento, 15 porém com aquele que, hoje, aqui, está conosco perante o Senhor, nosso Deus, e também com aquele que não está aqui, hoje, conosco.

16 Porque vós sabeis como habitamos na terra do Egito e como passamos pelo meio das nações pelas quais viestes a passar; 17 vistes as suas abominações e os seus ídolos, feitos de madeira e de pedra, bem como vistes a prata e o ouro que havia entre elas; 18 para que, entre vós, não haja homem, nem mulher, nem família, nem tribo cujo coração, hoje, se desvie do Senhor, nosso Deus, e vá servir aos deuses destas nações; para que não haja entre vós raiz que produza erva venenosa e amarga, 19 ninguém que, ouvindo as palavras desta maldição, se abençoe no seu íntimo, dizendo: Terei paz, ainda que ande na perversidade do meu coração, para acrescentar à sede a bebedice. 20 O Senhor não lhe quererá perdoar; antes, fumegará a ira do Senhor e o seu zelo sobre tal homem, e toda maldição escrita neste livro jazerá sobre ele; e o Senhor lhe apagará o nome de debaixo do céu. 21 O Senhor o separará de todas as tribos de Israel para calamidade, segundo todas as maldições da aliança escrita neste Livro da Lei. 22 Então, dirá a geração vindoura, os vossos filhos, que se levantarem depois de vós, e o estrangeiro que virá de terras longínquas, vendo as pragas desta terra e as suas doenças, com que o Senhor a terá afligido, 23 e toda a sua terra abrasada com enxofre e sal, de sorte que não será semeada, e nada produzirá, nem crescerá nela erva alguma, assim como foi a destruição de Sodoma e de Gomorra, de Admá e de Zeboim, que o Senhor destruiu na sua ira e no seu furor, 24 isto é, todas as nações dirão: Por que fez o Senhor assim com esta terra? Qual foi a causa do furor de tamanha ira? 25 Então, se dirá: Porque desprezaram a aliança que o Senhor, Deus de seus pais, fez com eles, quando os tirou do Egito; 26 e se foram, e serviram a outros deuses, e os adoraram; deuses que não conheceram e que ele não lhes havia designado. 27 Pelo que a ira do Senhor se acendeu contra esta terra, trazendo sobre ela toda a maldição que está escrita neste livro. 28 O Senhor os arrancou, com ira, de sua terra, mas também com indignação e grande furor, e os lançou para outra terra, como hoje se vê.

29 As coisas encobertas pertencem ao Senhor, nosso Deus, porém as reveladas nos pertencem, a nós e a nossos filhos, para sempre, para que cumpramos todas as palavras desta lei.

1 These are the words of the covenant which Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; 3 the great trials which thine eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders: 4 but Jehovah hath not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. 5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxed old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxed old upon thy foot. 6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God. 7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them: 8 and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites. 9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

10 Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel, 11 your little ones, your wives, and thy sojourner that is in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water; 12 that thou mayest enter into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah thy God maketh with thee this day; 13 that he may establish thee this day unto himself for a people, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he spake unto thee, and as he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath, 15 but with him that standeth here with us this day before Jehovah our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day 16 (for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which ye passed; 17 and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them); 18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; 19 and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry. 20 Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And Jehovah will set him apart unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.

22 And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath made it sick; 23 and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 24 even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? 25 Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, 26 and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given unto them: 27 therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book; 28 and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day. 29 The secret things belong unto Jehovah our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

1 These are the terms of the covenant the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.

2 Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials and to all his land.

3 With your own eyes you saw those great trials, those signs and great wonders.

4 But to this day the LORD has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear.

5 Yet the LORD says, "During the forty years that I led you through the wilderness, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet.

6 You ate no bread and drank no wine or other fermented drink. I did this so that you might know that I am the LORD your God."

7 When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them.

8 We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

9 Carefully follow the terms of this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do.

10 All of you are standing today in the presence of the LORD your God —your leaders and chief men, your elders and officials, and all the other men of Israel,

11 together with your children and your wives, and the foreigners living in your camps who chop your wood and carry your water.

12 You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God, a covenant the LORD is making with you this day and sealing with an oath,

13 to confirm you this day as his people, that he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

14 I am making this covenant, with its oath, not only with you

15 who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God but also with those who are not here today.

16 You yourselves know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries on the way here.

17 You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

18 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.

19 When such a person hears the words of this oath and they invoke a blessing on themselves, thinking, "I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way," they will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

20 The LORD will never be willing to forgive them; his wrath and zeal will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the LORD will blot out their names from under heaven.

21 The LORD will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

22 Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the LORD has afflicted it.

23 The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur —nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the LORD overthrew in fierce anger.

24 All the nations will ask: "Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?"

25 And the answer will be: "It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.

26 They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them.

27 Therefore the LORD's anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book.

28 In furious anger and in great wrath the LORD uprooted them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now."

29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.